The UN says the Sri Lankan government carried out widespread shelling which killed most of the civilians who died in a 2009 offensive against Tamil Tigers separatists.
Emma Watson will be transferring from Brown to another university in the fall, but amid reports of bullying, Watson says she loved Brown but is pursuing a course not offered there.
Robert De Niro agreed to an interview with Brian Williams despite being famously sphinx-like in interviews. Robert De Niro is at the Tribeca Film Festival, which runs through May 1.
The secrecy around Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s selection of Cathleen P. Black to run the city’s schools highlighted his faith in business leaders and dislike of public debate.
Starting Thursday, Wal-Mart plans to offer free shipping on its Web site, a move that may create an expectation among consumers and a threat to smaller retailers.
AP - Thousands of soldiers backed by tanks and snipers moved in before dawn to the city where Syria's anti-government uprising began, causing panic in the streets when they opened fire indiscriminately on civilians and went house-to-house rounding up suspected protesters. At least 11 people were killed and 14 others lay in the streets — either dead or gravely wounded, witnesses said.
AP - Thunder roared and tornado warning sirens blared, and all emergency workers in the southeast Missouri town of Poplar Bluff could do Monday was hope the saturated levee holding back the Black River would survive yet another downpour.
AP - Proponents of California's same-sex marriage ban filed a motion Monday seeking to vacate the historic ruling that overturned Proposition 8 because the federal judge who wrote it is in a long-term relationship with another man.
Missouri's governor ordered the state's National Guard to help combat rising rivers as areas braced for what the National Weather Service said could be record flooding.
A man who was taking part in a human cannonball show in Detling, England, was fatally injured Monday when the event failed to go off as planned, Kent police said.
A federal judge ruled in favor of NFL players, issuing an injunction that ordered the league's owners to lift their lockout. The league says it will seek an immediate stay.